The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show

From the February 26, 2025, edition of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show

BUCK SEXTON (CO-HOST): Let's take a call from Linda who had -- Linda, I'm told by our team you have three adopted Ukrainian kids. You want to weigh in on the Ukraine situation. Go ahead.

CALLER: Yes. Thank you. I'd like to preface this by saying I support president Trump. I'm very happy he's president. I love what he's doing with DOGE.

However, I'm not happy with his recent comments on Ukraine. I spent quite a bit of time in Ukraine. They love freedom there. They want their independence. But this comment about Zelensky being a dictator is just not not correct.

The the constitution in Ukraine actually does not allow for elections during wartime. His popularity in Ukraine is actually above 50%.

SEXTON: So let me ask you this let me ask you this, Linda. I appreciate you calling in. How should it end?

CALLER: So I agree with Trump that it needs to end. I mean, the the country is devastated. My daughter's orphanage has been bombed. Like, why are they bombing orphanages? Who in this such an evil, evil person? And, obviously, we're all very upset about the war in our family. 

So I agree that needs to end. I agree with with Trump. Probably Ukraine is gonna have to concede some land, maybe crease two fourteen. I'm hoping they can get back the land they've taken in the last three years.

I think I think Trump is -- Russia is not gonna give up Crimea for sure. ... I agree for negotiated settlement. I mean, I don't like it. But it is what it is. 

But I don't know if it's productive for him to exclude Zelensky from talk. And I don't it's definitely not productive to say that he should have stopped the war when Putin literally gave Zelensky no choice. He invaded. The only option they had was to abdicate and have no Ukraine, have no country, have no language, have no culture. And we're going to --

SEXTON: Linda, thank you, thank you very much for -- yeah. Wait, sorry. We're at the end of the of the hour here. Appreciate you calling in. Thank you for sharing your perspective on it. 

Just in response to some of the points you've raised, I'd say, you know, Trump's only been in office for a month, and it seems like it's finally realistic because you want the war to end too as we all do. It's realistic that that may happen imminently. So as they say, let the man cook. You know, he's -- he does his thing and, you know, he's not always -- it's not always the way of the, you know, the diplomatic niceties that are expected in these things, but the results are what matter.

In this case, results that save lives and billions, perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

CLAY TRAVIS (CO-HOST): Yeah. And I would submit to you that on some level, Trump is playing the bad guy, which may give him more opportunity to get a deal done with Russia.

SEXTON: And it's like, you want to deal with Trump or you want to deal with Rubio? You know, it's kind of a good cop bad cop situation. Rubio's like, look, I'm the nice one.

TRAVIS: I think for sure.